Tatsoi goes by several names, such as spoon mustard or spinach mustard. It’s only during the colder part of the season and you see the plant in its entirety that the name rosette bok choy makes sense. It’s rumored that tatsoi can survive under cover of snow, though we harvested these last ones, along with the remaining salad greens, chard and kale, rather than risk losing them all to the deepening cold.

Harvesting: Celeriac, leeks; last of the tatsoi, chard, kale, and salad greens.

Tatsoi really is beautiful. I wonder if I could get it to grow here during the winter – as in right now! it might be possible unless our current bout of freezing nights decides to stick around indefinitely. We’ve had a whole winter’s worth in one week already.